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Former Attorney General John Mitchell, once Nixon's closest political adviser, was indicted for perjury and conspiracy to defraud; so was Nixon's chief campaign fund raiser, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans. The arduously prepared prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon papers was dismissed because of Government wiretapping, burglary and other misconduct...
...also turned out that the CIA had provided the tools and disguises used in raiding the office of Ellsberg's former psychiatrist, and that approval of their use had come from General Robert Cushman, then deputy head of the CIA and now Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. For years the American left had drawn a picture of the U.S. spied on by a sort of combined super CIA-FBI dominated by lawless and hidden money. Once dismissed as paranoid fantasies, such visions now acquired a touch of nightmarish truth...
...Before the Government's case against Pentagon Papers Defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo was thrown out of court (see page 28), unnamed Justice Department officials said that Nixon twice in the past three weeks had tried to keep the department from informing Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. that the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist had been broken into by covert agents operating on orders from people in the White House. Nixon reluctantly agreed to pass along this information only after high Justice Department officials repeatedly advised him that the Los Angeles court had every right to know...
...TIME has traced the missing records of FBI wiretaps, including the interception of a Daniel Ellsberg conversation in 1971 that contributed to the dismissal of the Pentagon papers case. On the orders of Robert C. Mardian, then an Assistant Attorney General, the records were taken from the files of FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover by one of his deputies, William Sullivan, and turned over to Mardian. They went from Mardian to the White House office of John Ehrlichman, chief domestic affairs adviser. Whether they were destroyed, which would be a criminal offense, or are still in the White House...
...Watergate contamination spread ever more widely as it was revealed that-in response to requests from White House officials-the CIA and the State Department had helped Convicted Wiretapper E. Howard Hunt Jr. carry out covert activities. These involved either the investigation of Ellsberg or the fabrication of cables falsely implicating President John Kennedy in the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...